Money Text Set

1. By: Arielle Stiles and Jaclyn Stultz MoneyText Set READ 436 Dr. Sullivan May 3, 2013

2. Math SOL Measurement Focus: U.S. Customary and Metric Units 3.8 – The student will determine by counting, the value of a collection of bills and coins.

3. The Go-Around Dollar • Written by: Barbara Johnston Adams • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers (March 31, 1992) • Reading Level: 5.4 (Flesch-Kincaid) • Summary: This book discusses all the different ways a dollar is transported from person to person and from place to place. It discusses how a dollar is made, what the symbols represent, the importance of our money, and how long it staying in circulation. • Strategy: A KWL would work good with this book, for children to tell what they know about the making and transfer of money, what they want to know, and what they’ve learned.

4. Making Cents • Written by Elizabeth Keeler Robinson and illustrated by Bob McMahon • Publisher: First Tricycle Press in (2008)  • Reading Level: 5.2 (Flesch-Kincaid) • Summary: The book is about a group of students that are trying to build a clubhouse for their neighborhood.  Throughout the book, they introduce the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, one-dollar bill, five-dollar bill, ten-dollar bill, twenty-dollar bill, fifty –dollar bill, and one hundred-dollar bill.  During the book, they tell you what building materials you can buy with each coin and how you can buy the item with smaller coins.  It also describes what each coin looks like. • Strategy: This book would work well with a felt board or story board for children to match the amount of money with the objects that the children in the story were able to buy.

5. Money • Written by: Sara Pistoia • Publisher: The Child’s World (2007)  • Reading Level: 3.3(Flesch-Kincaid) • Summary: Money is a great book for students that are starting to learn about money.  It not only gives pictures of a penny, nickel, dime, and quarter, but it also gives you problems to count the change. It also gives examples of what people do with money.  It tells students that people buy things with money and also trade items for money.  Throughout the book, students are given the ability to count money to see how much different items cost.  I think this book would be difficult for many first grade students, so the teacher should introduce this book as a read aloud before they start a counting money unit.  After the read aloud, the children can do activities that all them to use money to buy different items. • Strategy: A matching game could be used for this book to match the coin with its name and value.

6. Smart About Money: A Rich History • Written By: Jon Lee Anderson and illustrated by Thor Wickstrom • Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap (2003) • Reading level: 3.9 (Flesch-Kincaid) • Summary: The book starts off with different ways to make money and then gets a little more specific. It talks about what money is, what people did before there was money (there are even really cute up to date examples about bartering playing cards and ice cream), and why money was invented. The book also talks about other items that were used as money like corn in Guatemala, rice in S.E. Asia, and salt in Rome among other items in different parts of the world. There is even a section of the book that explains how coins are made! The book breaks down our dollar to tell readers about what all the markings mean. I would definitely use this as a read aloud to introduce money to younger students. When students know there is a mystery behind money they always get more interested in figuring out how money works. • Strategy: Children could use a KWL chart for this book to tell what children know about bartering, how money is made, and how money is used in different countries.

7. Pigs Will Be Pigs • Written by: Amy Axelrod and illustrated by Sharon McGinley-Nally. • Publisher: Alladin Publishing Company (1997) • Reading Level: 2.9 (Flesch-Kincaid) • Summary: This book is about a family of pigs who have no food in the house and decide to go out to decide. Unfortunately, they realize they have no money to go out to eat. So they decide to search around the house for any money they can find (in between cushions, under beds, etc). They bring all the money that they find out to eat. When they get to the restaurant they have to figure out how much money they have all together and what they can afford on the menu. This is a great book to introduce to the class who is starting to learn about money and the value of coins and dollars. The children can help figure out how much money the pigs have and what they can afford on the menu before the book is over. • Strategy: A text-to-world sheet could be used with this book. Children would have to brainstorm all the other things that the pigs could buy with the money they found in their house.

8. Sluggers’ Car Wash • Written By: Stuart J. Murphy • Publisher: Harper Collins Publisher (2002) • Reading Level: 3.0 (Flesch-Kincaid) • Summary: It is a great book for students who are learning about adding money, subtracting money, and making change. The book is about a group of children who want to raise money for their new team baseball t-shirts. The kids decide to raise money by having a car wash! After the children put their money together to buy the supplies, the main character, CJ uses the total amount $23.89 to buy supplies. The book uses a notepad to show how the children added up the cost of the supplies, alligning the ones;tenths, and hundreths places together. This helps students visually see how money is written when we add it together. The book then groups the bills and quarters separately to show how much money they have left over. For example, on the left hand side shows the amount of coins 7 quarters and on the right hand side shows the amount $1.75. The children add it up the amount to see how much change they have left over. As the book continues customers come to get their car washed and CJ uses different strategies for making change. He uses adding up, and adding cents together to make a whole bill. The book ends with the children counting all of the money together and thankfully have enough to buy new t-shirts! • Strategy: The students could make a brainstorm list of other things that the team can do to raise money.

9. The Lemonade War • Written by: Jacqueline Davies • Publisher: Sandpiper Books (2007) • Reading Level: 2.4 (Flesh-Kincaid) • Summary: Its the end of the summer and Jessie and brother Evan are trying to decide how to make the best of their last few days before school starts.  They finally decide that a lemonade stand is a great way to make some extra money and have fun.  Soon, their small business becomes quite the competition between the siblings.  The two children must use their math skills and money sense to decide how to make their businesses most profitable. This book contains problem-solving strategies, math problems, and working with economics.  Not only would it work well in the classroom, but it could also work with an economics unit.  As a teacher, you could have students pretend they are running a lemonade stand and use their basic equations and money skills to determine how to make the largest profit.  The book also poses many math questions throughout the story.  • Strategy: A Venn diagram or comparison chart could be used to compare the different sales that each sibling made at their lemonade stands.

10. The Penny Pot • Written by: Stuart J. Murphy and illustrated by Lynne Cravath • Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books (1998) • Reading Level: 2.6 (Flesch-Kincaid) • Summary: This story is about a little girl who is would like to get her face painted. When she reaches the place for painting, she has to count the coins in her pocket to see if she has enough money to get her face painted. When she realizes that she doesn’t have enough money, it is suggested that she wait until she can see if anyone drops pennies in the penny pot. She then hopes she can collect enough change from the penny pot to help pay for her face painted. This would be a great introduction to students learning about the values of coins and money. When working on this unit, students could be introduced to the values of the coins and once the concept has been grasped, a classroom store could be implemented to reinforce all of the activities. • Strategy: A story board or felt chart could be used to match each child’s face painting with the amount of money he or she put into the penny pot.

11. I Know About Money, It’s So Funny! • Written By: Tracy Kompelien • Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company (2007) • Reading Level: 6.5 (Flesch-Kincaid) • Summary: This book is a simple picture and counting book about coins. It would be a great book to use as a read aloud when introducing the concept of coins to students, since it is so high on the Flesch-Kincaid scale.  It breaks coins down into something realistic that students can see being used everyday.  It shows how much things can cost by providing pictures of things young children would want to buy and how many coins it would take to buy them.  It also shows equivalences of coins.  For example it explains how ten pennies equal one dime or two dimes and one nickel equal one quarter.  Students can also read this book on their own because it provides pictures of the coins and what they can buy and what they are equivalent too, making it easier for younger students to see the concept of using and counting coins. • Strategy: A felt board can be used for children to show the equivalencies among different coins that represent the same amounts as shown in the book.

12. The Everything Kids’ Money Book; Earn It, Save It, and Watch it Grow! • Written By: Brette McWhorter Sember, J.D. • Publisher: F + W Publications, Inc. (2008) • Reading level: 6.9 (Flesch-Kincaid) • Summary: This book is a large chapter, fact, and picture book with nine chapters each focusing on a different aspect of money.  The first chapter starts with the history of money and the other chapters go into detail about coins, paper money, banks, paydays, investments, costs, spending, and saving.  This book could be used as a read aloud depending on what chapter you wanted to focus on.  If the students are starting to learn about cost of goods and services, there is a chapter for that to use as an introduction to the content.  This is also a great book to keep in a classroom library because it provides pictures and facts about different aspects of money that students can flip through and read about whenever they are interested in learning more about the many concepts of money. • Strategy: A text-to-world or text-to-self sheet can be used for students to show how the book relates to the ways they use money in everyday life (spending, saving, etc.)